(Late evening update on February 2, 2023: Although it had been my expectation to have the next new commentary posted by this time, 11:45 p.m., Central Standard Time, there is just too much wok to do on it to continue at this late hour. I will, however, post it as soon as it is completed sometime late Friday, February 3, 2023, the Feast of Saint Blae, and thank you for your patience.)

Today is the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, always the humble handmaid of the Lord who humbled herself this day, the last day of Christmastide, which ends after Holy Mass today, by submitting to the rituals of the law although she was not in need of such a ritualistic purification because of her Perpetual Virginity.

This is the day that Our Lady presented her Divine Son, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, in the same Temple where He would be found twelve years later answering questions of the rabbis, the same Temple whose curtain would be torn in two from top to bottom as He breathed His last on the wood of the Holy Cross to redeem us, thereby signifying the permanent end of the Old Covenant and the supersession of Judaism by Catholicism as the true religion. The aged Simeon, who waited patiently every day in the Temple for the fulfillment of the promise that God had made to him, that he would not die before his eyes had seen and his arms had beheld the Messiah, sent the first Sword of Sorrow plunging through Our Lady's Sorrowful and and Immaculate Heart when he prophesied that the Child he beheld would be destined for the rise and for the fall of man, a sign to be opposed, a Sign of Contradiction. We must never fear to be signs of contradiction in our own lives in imitation of the THE Sign of Contradiction, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, as He hung on the wood of the Holy Cross to redeem us as he was mocked and reviled by the very people from whose stock He had taken His Sacred Humanity.

We must be willing to suffer all manner of calumny and humiliation for the many times that we have preferred human respect to fidelity to Our Lord, for the many times we have refused to call upon Our Lady's maternal intercession, for the many times we have refused to "take sides," especially in our day by refusing to reject conciliarism and its ravenous wolves once and for all.

A new commentary will appear by tomorrow, the Feast of Saint Blase.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Today, Tuesday, January 31, 2023, is the feast of the great Saint John Bosco, to whom we are very devoted. This is a revised reflection on an extraordinary priest who had a zeal for the salvation of souls in his youth, a zeal that would last until he died on this date in 1888, one hundred thirty-five years ago.

Saint John Bosco stands a rebuke to everything that manner in which the conciliar revolutionaries refuse to seek converts to what they think is the Catholic Church and the manner in which they reaffirm unrepentant sinners in lives that could lead them to Hell for all eternity if they do not go to Confession and amend their lives. This brief reflection, written about nine years ago now, is an effort to capture the spirit of this magnificent teacher of the young, mystic and zealous apostle of souls.

Vivat Christus Rex! Viva Cristo Rey! 

Our Lady, Help of Christians, pray for us.

Saint John Bosco, pray for us.

Saint Dominic Savio, pray for us.

Saint Maria Domenica Mazzarello, pray for us.

Today, Sunday, Janauary 29, 2023, is the Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany and the Commemorated Feast of Saint Francis de Sales, the Apostle of Charity.

Vice President of the United States of America Kamala Harris, who has been referred as “President Harris” by the octogenarian keeper of classified documents next in “secure” location next to his Corvette in his garage in Wilmington, Delaware, President in Name Only Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr, caused quite a stir on Sunday, January 22, 2023, the Third Sunday after the Epiphany and the Commemoration of Saints Vincent and Anastasius, when she made omitted the phrase “right to life”

This an updated and revised version of my annual commentary on the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States of America in the cases of Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, January 22, 1973.

Part twenty of "Sin: More Deadly Than the Coronavirus" will be posted in about four or five days.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Polycarp, pray for us.
 

Today's offering a republished reflection on the Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul the Apostle.

My annual commentary on the anniversary of the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States of America in the cases of Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, January 22, 1973, has undergone an enlargement with substantial revisions. It should be published sometime by Thursday, January 26, 2023, the Feast of Saint Polycarp. 

Work on part six of "Sin: More Deadly Than the Coronavirus" has been consuming my time as well. I imagine that it will not be until this weekend before the article is ready to be published. Thank you.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Paul, pray for us.

Saint Peter, pray for us.

This is a commentary about the latest dog and pony show in Washington, District of Columbia.

A commentary on the fiftieth anniversary of the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States of America in the cases of Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, January 22, 1973,  will follow no later than Tuesday, January 24, 2023, the Feast of Saint Timothy. 

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saints Vincent and Anastasius, pray for us.

As promised, I am hereby making a copy of the prayers for the Chair of Unity Octave that were distributed by Father Francis Miller, O.F.M., several days ago. Father Francis was kind enough to send me the prayers in a Word document, which permits me to post them so that those who access this website.

Also, I received word via a third party that one of the finest Catholic gentlemen I have ever known, Mr. Howard J. Walsh, died at the age of eighty-three of complications from Stage IV colon cancer yesterday morning, Thursday, January 19, 2023, the Feast of Saints Marius, Martha, Abucham, and Audifax, and the Commemorations of Saint Canute, King of Denmark, and of Saint Wulstan.

I knew Mr. Walsh for nearly thirty years and was always impressed with his genuine spirit of Catholic charity for one and all, using the proceeds from the sale of a screw manufacturing company (which he ran according to the principles of Catholic Social Teaching, including the living wage and the standards of natural justice and supernatural charity), to promote a love for Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, His Most Blessed Mother, especially under the title of Our Lady, Help of Christians, and by means of he Most Holy Rosay, Saint Joseph, and the Holy Catholic Faith.

Mr. Walsh’s Keep the Faith organization made lectures given by Catholic priests and scholars available to Catholics and non-Catholics alike, and he was tireless in promoting devotion to the Immemorial Mass of Tradition, which he purchased Latin Mass magazine and renamed it: The Latin Mass; A Journal of Catholic Culture in 2000. (Mr. Walsh asked me to be the editor of the magazine shortly after he purchased it, but I told him that I am and will forever remain a horrific administrator, and he was thankful for my candor.)

More recently, Keep the Faith published Father Kenneth Baker’s translations of the works of Saint Robert Bellarmine and placed books in audio form on compact discs, including a seven-hour reading of a detailed book about the North American Martyrs.

Blessed with an abiding humility (an example of which was provided in my tribute to his—and my own—friend, the late John W. Blewett, who  died on February 8, 2013—see With A Heart Of Pure Catholic Gold) and a terrifically self-effacing sense of humor, which was augmented by his wonderful wife of nearly fifty-seven years, Eleanor McNamara Walsh, Howard Walsh always brought Catholic joy wherever he went, a joy that extended even when visiting with those, such as us, with whom he disagreed about the state of the Church in this time of apostasy and betrayal whenever we had the opportunity to visit with him in the past few years. He was a friend to those in need, and always had some “loose change” to give to people on the streets of Manhattan who were begging for assistance.

Please join me in praying for the repose of the soul of a giant of a Catholic gentleman, Howard J. Walsh, as well as for the consolation of his wife, his five children, nearly forty grandchildren (and their families), and the many thousands of people who profited from having known and enjoyed his friendship and company during the eighty-three years he spent as a member of the Church Militant here on the face of the earth.

Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him.

May his soul and all the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Pope Saint Fabian, pray for us.

Saint Sebastian, pray fo

Work continues on my next original commentary, which is proceeding at a slower pace because, quite honestly, it is very difficult to type because of the rheumatoid arthritis in my right hand. I can only do so much typing every day.

However, I hereby offer you brief reflections on today’s Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter in Rome as well as of Saint Prisca, whose feast is commemorated today, January 18, 2023, and the feasts that will be celebrated tomorrow, January 19, 2023 (Saints Marius, Martha, Aubocham, and Audifax; Saint Canute, King of Denmark; and Saint Wulstan).

The Chair of Unity Octave begins today, Wednesday, January 18, 2023.

Father Francis Miller, O.F.M. has done Catholics the great favor of sending out the official set of prayers to be prayed during the Chair of Unity Octave, prayers that differ greatly both in their text and tenor from that which has circulated within many traditional circles for the past twenty years or so. I will provide a link to these prayers later today.

Finally, I was informed by one of my few remaining friends on my native Long Island that Father John T. Murphy, the founder of Save the Babies, Inc., who was arrested many times for merely praying the Rosary near abortuaries on Long Island, has died. I covered part of Father Murphy’s 1998 trial for criminal trespass for The Wanderer. Remarkably, an honest judge acquitted him of all charges and excoriated the special prosecutor who had been appointed to conduct the case for the State of New York.

Father Murphy was good enough to offer the Immemorial Mass of Tradition during a conference I had organized about the corruption of the conciliar “bishops” (I had yet to admit that the corruption was systemic in nature and went all the way to to the top)  that was held across the street from where then named National Conference of Catholic Bishops meeting was taking place in Washington, District of Columbia, in November of 1997, and he was good enough to offer Holy Mass for us in Rome when he was there in 2005, and on several other occasions that year before we came to embrace the fact that the See of Peter has been vacant since the death of Pope Pius XII on October 9, 1958.

We will always be grateful to Father Murphy for the courageous witness he gave in defense of the innocent preborn as well as for his charity towards us.

Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him, May his soul and all the souls of the faithful department, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.

Saints Peter and Paul, pray for us.

Saint Prisca, pray for us.

Saints Marius, Martha, Abucham, and Audifax, pray for us.

Saint Canute, King of Denmark, pray for us.

Saint Wulstan, pray for us.

Although I was busily working on a commentary about the pathological octogenarian at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue who just “happens” to keep classified documents next to his 1967 Corvette in a locked garage in Wilmington, Delaware, a review of a link found in my email’s trash bin informed me of Senor Jorge’s latest use of profanity, something that he has in common with the man whose support of surgical baby-killing he has indemnified in the name of his “conscience,” Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., when addressing seminarians from Barcelona, Spain. This commentary has thus taken precedence over the one about Red China’s own man in the White House.

I am sorry the lack of articles in the past week. It is very hard to type with the rheumatoid arthritis in my right hand and a remedy that was recommended to ameliorate the penitential pain caused a very penitential allergic reaction on my face, forehead, and neck. Penance is better than ever in 2023, and I well deserve it.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Pope Saint Marcellus I, pray for us.